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32 thoughts on “Skins In The Game”

A dream catcher? Bit retograde no? Do you really want to further associate your product with hippies? Decent Sativa should make you alert and inquisitive – not noddling about confused as to the location of your headband.

There are plenty of good reasons to legalise, but an ad with stereotypical “hippy” imagery that still includes an attractive, scantily-dressed woman and a completely irrelevant cliché quote, is not one of them.

I think the idea here is to take something that used to represent “dropping out” of the industrial rat-race, and turn it into just another commercialised commodity. The value of anything is the jobs it creates (rather than work being the production things we value). Dissent from the market becomes impossible; the use of tired stereotypes is deliberate, as the aim is to undermine imagination itself.

You could argue that it should be more like alcohol, but I highly doubt it would go from being illegal to being as openly advertised as alcohol. Even if it did, alcohol advertising is becoming less acceptable and more restricted by the month.

If cannabis were to be legalised with the same advertising restrictions as tobacco; then at least the senseless financial black hole which prohibition consumes would be gone and whole new market of opportunity opens up.

Remember how the Mafia gained most of it’s early financial stonghold was via the 1920’s alcohol prohibition of the US. The current equivalent is non-prescribed drug prohibition. (one often wonders how those who prescribe drugs which are “legal” are never accountable for the failure of that prescription)

Sir William published many papers with his colleagues in the Seventies, revealing for the first time evidence that even limited social use of cannabis could precipitate schizophrenia in people who previously had no psychological problems.